2018-03-08 20:01 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net>: > Hi Guix, > > under “guix/scripts” there are a couple of tools that are really useful, > such as “guix challenge”. While they are great for the command line, > I’d really like to use them from within Guile. > > Using “(guix-challenge)” directly is cumbersome, because I need to > provide an argument list “args”, which is then parsed internally. > Instead, I’d like to be able to say > > (challenge #:urls (list "a" "b") > #:packages (list foo bar baz)) > > and have it produce some report values. Then “guix-challenge” could be > implemented in terms of “challenge”. > > The same might be useful for “guix-build” or “guix-environment”. > > I agree. This would also enable more flexible cli possibilities, and would be really useful for scripting. Does this idea fit to the improve command line tools outreachy idea?
> What do you think? > > -- > Ricardo > > GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC > https://elephly.net > > > >
